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13th Century

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English version by
Oliver Davies

Original Language
Dutch

The madness of love

Themes

Honey

Lover and Beloved

Recommended Books

	Christian Mystics: Their Lives and Legacies throughout the Ages, by Ursula King
	Hadewijch: The Complete Works (Classics of Western Spirituality) , by Mother Columbo Hart
	Meister Eckhart and the Beguine Mystics: Hadewijch of Brabant, Mechthild of Magdeburg, and Marguerite Porete, by Bernard Mcginn
	The Shambhala Anthology of Women's Spiritual Poetry, Edited by Aliki Barnstone
	Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, Edited by Jane Hirshfield

The madness of love
Is a blessed fate;
And if we understood this
We would seek no other:
It brings into unity
What was divided,
And this is the truth:
Bitterness it makes sweet,
It makes the stranger a neighbor,
And what was lowly it raises on high.

-- from Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, Edited by Jane Hirshfield

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